HINTS FOR BLUE ICE (by Psygnosis)

These hints will not give you the final solution to Blue Ice, but they will help you to solve some parts of the
puzzle which are driving you mad. They will only help you if you have already mastered the basics of the
game.

Top five handy hints

    Try everything! This games does not follow the rules, so even if it seems bizarre...go for it.

    Watch carefully when the hand goes red...you know you will have to come back to do something at a
    later stage. Even more importantly when the arrow goes red, you know you have found the entrance
    to one of the many rooms...now you just have to get into it.

    The moon will cut plants which you need...the reed in the pond for the clarinet in the music room, the
    Yerba de Mate plant in the first garden, and the lavender plant and the plant you need to paint with in
    the second garden.

    You need to keep going back to the rooms, they all interact with each other. Items from one room will
    only be relevant in another room etc.

    Various books in the library shelves will change when you have either a liquid, a powder, an insect or
    a leaf. Depending on what sort of item, you have the description will change eg in the liquids book
    there are descriptions for water, wine, lavender water etc. You need to refer to these books for clues.

THE FOLLOWING HINTS ARE NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF WHAT YOU MUST DO IN EVERY
ROOM, BUT THEY WILL HELP TO GET YOU OVER SOME OF THE HARDER PARTS:

The Front of the House (first scene)

1. Put the sun on the large plant to the right of the screen, then water the flower with water in the bottle,
then put the sun on again, then you get a blackberry. Use the hand to pick it. If you leave it a minute, you
will get a fly, use the net to collect it. This fly goes in the spiders web.

2. Eventually you will be able to go into another room above the chimney. This happens a fair way into
the game.

The Pantry

1. Collect the onion for later use in Ollys bathroom

2. Note the containers of salt and sugar. You use the salt cellar from the kitchen and fill it with either of
these. If you want to empty the salt cellar, just click on it over the meat.

Mrs Ss Bedroom

1. Use the empty salt cellar from the kitchen to collect sleeping powder from the cup with the zzzs on it.
Put this in Mrs Ss glass in the library, along with some wine from the bottle below her in the library (place
hand on wine bottle, when it turns into a fist, keeping your finger on the mouse button take it up to the
glass, then release). This will allow you to go from the first garden room to the second.

2. L:ater in the game, you can eventually use the arrow to go in the wine glass (collect the icecube, put it
in the beaker in the lab, and it will turn into one of the pieces of paper you need to solve the game)

3. You can go inside her mouth, by placing the hand near her mouth then using the arrow. Once inside her
mouth collect the tooth from the lower right hand side, this will start the generator in Ollys bathroom (which
is through the music room).

The Kitchen

1. The bottle from the kitchen is essential, collect it by using the hand on the top of the bottle, then when
the hand closes move it over to Mrs S and release. (Remember this technique as you will need it to milk
the cow and at various other times of the game) You will now be able to pick up the bottle. You can fill it
with different liquids throughout the game (eg: wine, milk, water, vinegar, lavender water) and empty it into
either the pond or Ollys bathroom.

2. Put milk into the butter urn which is hanging over the stove. Then use the knife to collect it and spread it
on the toast.

3. To make blackberry jam, you need to collect three blackberrys all at once. Once you have collected
your first blackberry from the front of the house, take it to the library and place it in the mouse hole. Then
use the hand to collect the mouse, put the mouse back in the hole. Go and get another blackberry and
repeat the procedure. Then do the whole thing one more time. Once youve placed three blackberries in
the hole, go in and collect them using the hand. Now put them in the saucepan and youre on your way to
making blackberry jam.

The Dining Room

1. The hints above on making toast, butter and blackberry jam will give you one part of the menu. 

2. To make the Royal Yerba De Mate, you add the boiled water to the teapot, then put in the leaf, then put
the hand on the handle to pour into the cup. Then add milk and sugar. 

3. Making the cheese sauce is easy...get the cheese from the mouse hole add to the saucepan in kitchen,
throw in milk and salt from the pantry. 

4. Now you just need the eel. We have not yet worked that out, so you are on your own here! The only
clues we have are from the Blue Ice demo and a bit of cheating. All we have worked out is you need to put
a fly - there must be a third one somewhere in the game - on the meat in the pantry, collect the maggot, get
Olly to blow on it in the hall, feed it to the large fish in the pond, put the fish on the side of the pond, feed it
to the eel, then cook the eel on the inside of the fireplace.

Pollyannas Bath

1. Collect the pig shaped sponge, use it to wipe the window above the bath, then give it to Olly in the first
garden.

Ollys Bathroom

1. Collect an onion from the jar in the Pantry and feed it to Olly. Then go to his rear end with hand and you
will collect a wind icon (pretty sick!!) This icon will play the instruments in the music room. You also need to
use it to get the fire going in the drawing room (first place the hand on the bucket near the fire, then light it
with the candle, then use the wind. The fire will toast the bread)

2. Make sure you collect the toothbrush, this is also a paint brush. 

3. Use the hairnet from Mrs Ss bedroom (use the hand above her hair to get it), near the cactus to collect
a fly.

The Lab

1. Put the fly from the bathroom into the pestle. Then pick up the red paint with the toothbrush...take it to
the drawing room and you will have one of the colours you need. To get the yellow colour take the stick
from the second garden, put it on the tree at the front of the house, you will get a nut which you put in the
pestle. The third colour can be obtained using the leaf cut using the moon on the plant to the right of the
second garden.

2. To get the burner started, use the hand on the switch over on the far left of the screen. Then put the
candle above the burner, and you should get a flame. The beaker will then heat water (for Yerba De Mate
in the dining room) and also to melt the icecube from the wine glass.

The Drawing Room

1. See hints for the lab to solve this part of the puzzle.

2. You need to light the candle in this room to light up the cellar and the spider room. Just collect the match
from the kitchen, strike it against the box, and put the lighted match to the candle.

3. You can go into the fireplace using the arrow.

4. Later on in the game, after you have got into the wine glass, you can go into the small painting on the
wall.

The Second Garden

1. Use the moon to get the lavender leaf from the plant to the left, then drop the leaf to Pollyannas bath.
Fill the bottle with the water and give it to Olly in his bathroom. Then go back to Pollyannas bathroom to
collect the note, then give it to Olly in his bathroom.

Outer Space

1. After you have been in the wine glass room, and in the painting room, put the arrow above the chimney
at the front of the house. Drag from one star to another on the left hand side of the screen...this takes a bit
of practice, but eventually you will form a saucepan sort of shape. Then use the arrow on the bright star to
the right of the screen, near the right eye, this will take you into another room. We have not worked out the
secret to this room, except if you place some sugar in the middle you get sweets...sounds weird but try it
and see.
